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01.10.2026

Take a look at one of the five eras in Stranger Than Heaven

RGG Studio and SEGA have revealed a new trailer for Stranger Than Heaven, a 50-year action-adventure saga. The game follows men with nowhere to go, desperate to find homes. Use violence to survive and music to thrive across five cities and eras of modern Japan. The new trailer showcases one of those cities/eras: 1929 Kure, Hiroshima.…

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Take a look at one of the five eras in Stranger Than Heaven

October 1, 2026

News/Sega

RGG Studio and SEGA have revealed a new trailer for Stranger Than Heaven, a 50-year action-adventure saga. The game follows men with nowhere to go, desperate to find homes. Use violence to survive and music to thrive across five cities and eras of modern Japan. The new trailer showcases one…

Review: Silent Hill: Townfall (Sony PlayStation 5)

September 29, 2026

Horror/Konami/Reviews/Silent Hill

The smartest decision they made in Silent Hill: Townfall was to have it play out in first person, something that the series doesn’t typically do. But a first-person perspective makes the horror more immediate, direct and, ultimately, intense. Townfall is downright visceral in its horror atmosphere trappings, which is just…

Review: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve (Sony PlayStation 5)

September 28, 2026

Bandai Namco/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 5

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve offers 30-odd missions of explosive aerial acrobatics that you won’t soon forget about. Bandai Namco has, over so many years and titles now, achieved something really rare for this particular genre: action that doesn’t feel like it’s condescending towards the players with overly simplistic…

A newly-cropped version of Dee Dee in the DDNet news studio.

The catch-up coffee: September 28, 2026

September 28, 2026

catch-up coffee/News

Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…

Deck-building roguelike game Deck of Haunts launches for consoles in October

September 25, 2026

Dangen Entertainment/News

DANGEN Entertainment and Mantis Games have announced that Deck of Haunts, a sinister deckbuilding roguelike where players become a haunted house, will launch for consoles in early October. Perfect for Halloween! The console announcement trailer showcases the expanded version of the game launching for consoles, as new cards, rooms, missions,…

Powerwashing simulator Pixel Washer launches in Early Access this October

September 25, 2026

Acclaim/News

Valadria and Acclaim announced that retro-inspired powerwashing simulator Pixel Washer will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam this October, followed by versions for Switch 2 and Switch alongside its full release in 2027. In the game, you play as Pigxel, a pig with stylish goggles tasked with turning…

Theos: Cities of Myth launches for PC this November

September 24, 2026

DotEmu/News

From the developer behind Pharaoh: A New Era, Theos: Cities of Myth is a Pantheon-themed strategic city builder and management game. Today, Triskell Interactive and Dotemu revealed an all-new trailer for the title alongside a release date announcement. The trailer discusses the game’s modernized homage to the greatest city builders…

The key art for Zombie Police: Midsummer Unhappy New Year.

Zombie Police: Midsummer Unhappy New Year launches for PC this November

September 24, 2026

Indie/News

Zombie Police: Midsummer Unhappy New Year is a comedy mystery game featuring an eccentric zombie detective. Today, developer Lobstudio shared a November release date for the title and confirmed it will also launch for Nintendo Switch at a later date.…

Review: Flamecraft (Nintendo Switch)

September 23, 2026

board game/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Monster Couch developed the digital adaptation of Wingspan, a game that I’ve spent more than 1000 hours playing at this point. So I was naturally interested in seeing what the team could do with Flamecraft, another digital board game adaptation and remarkably similar to Wingspan in that it’s a relatively…

Review: Akiba Lost (Nintendo Switch 2)

September 22, 2026

FMV Game/Nintendo Switch 2/Reviews/visual novel

I don’t think Akiba Lost is the best name the development team could have come up with here. It’s accurate, in that it’s a game about people who got lost in Akihabara (pet name “Akiba”), but given the presence of Akiba’s Trip, this game is just asking for players to…

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Reviews

Review: Silent Hill: Townfall (Sony PlayStation 5)

September 29, 2026

The smartest decision they made in Silent Hill: Townfall was to have it play out in first person, something that the series…

Review: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve (Sony PlayStation 5)

September 28, 2026

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve offers 30-odd missions of explosive aerial acrobatics that you won’t soon forget about. Bandai Namco has,…

Review: Flamecraft (Nintendo Switch)

September 23, 2026

Monster Couch developed the digital adaptation of Wingspan, a game that I’ve spent more than 1000 hours playing at this point. So…

Review: Akiba Lost (Nintendo Switch 2)

September 22, 2026

I don’t think Akiba Lost is the best name the development team could have come up with here. It’s accurate, in that…

Videos

The Last Waltz: See Australia’s finest dancers in action ahead of the game’s release

May 19, 2026

As you all know, I’m working on a visual novel about my great passion in life, Dancesport. After three years and all…

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Interviews

Interview: The Blood of Dawnwalker wants you to fail forward

July 8, 2026

There is a comfortable lie at the heart of almost every open-world RPG. The idea that the world is ending (or some…

Q & A: Three titles in, The Talos Principle continues to inspire

June 2, 2026

The Talos Principle has always been a series that asks far more of players than simply solving puzzles. Across its first two…

Games are worth preserving! Q & A with SNEG Co-Founder on the Warhammer classics

May 26, 2026

Retro publisher, SNEG, recently brought a slew of Warhammer classics to Steam – many for the first time. SNEG is a prolific…

Haunted by Lost Futures: Cherrymochi’s Jen Williams on Dusk Index: Gion

February 16, 2026

Jen Williams has seen the future, and like many of us, she’s worried about it. The studio lead at Cherrymochi, the Japan-based…

Gadgets

by Matt

September 7, 2026

Corsair/Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: Corsair Clipper Pro Mini 60

As someone who travels around enough that I like to think of myself as a pretentious “digital nomad”, I value electronics and accessories that are portable and useful in unconventional locations. So I can work, game, or annoy people online while chilling next to a resort pool or on a luxury cruise, for example (see, I told you I was…

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/keyboard

Gadget Review: EPOMAKER HE75 V2

EPOMAKER is rapidly becoming a favourite keyboard manufacturer. I love the company’s typewriter-shaped keyboard, which has become my device for writing for pleasure. The HE75 V2, meanwhile, is just a gorgeous option for gaming. As we all know, I don’t really play games where extreme speed matters and latency is…